Overview: There exists no other book reconsidering oligopoly theory in its heyday in view of the new dynamics including exotic phenomena such as chaos.There is ample computer graphics to illustrate all importanThe book focuses classical oligopoly theory as developed in 1840-1940. By the end of this period oligopoly came under the spell of game theory in its probabilistic equilibrium format. Work by Cournot, von Stackelberg, Palander, and Hotelling, causal and dynamic in essence, but ignored, is reconsidered in the light of modern dynamics using topology and numerics. As particular features, vo
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